IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Alberton Close, WIGAN, WN2 1ZE
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Alberton Close, WN2 1ZE by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (25 Images Found)
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Image
Details
Distance
1
Cottages on Ratcliffe Road
Probably built as part of the earliest phase of development of coal mining in the area.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 4 Jun 2013
0.07 miles
2
Cottages on Ratcliffe Road
Probably built as part of the earliest phase of development of coal mining in the area.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 4 Jun 2013
0.07 miles
4
No golfing allowed
Not that anyone would choose to play golf with vegetation like this to contend with!
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 4 Jun 2013
0.13 miles
5
Do not adjust your set
The picture is straight - it's the football pitch which slopes off downhill at an angle.
Image: © David Long
Taken: 8 Jul 2008
0.13 miles
6
Haigh Ventilator
This was the upcast shaft, a fire was lit at the bottom allowing ventilation throughout the mine.
Image: © Ashley Dace
Taken: 10 Feb 2013
0.14 miles
8
Wall Hey furnace ventilation shaft
Wall Hey furnace ventilation shaft is a disused post-industrial landmark in Aspull, Greater Manchester, England.
Image: © Steven Haslington
Taken: 7 Mar 2015
0.15 miles
9
Wall Hey furnace ventilation shaft
Built at the top of a mine shaft some 650 feet deep at the bottom of which a furnace would be lit. The updraught would draw fresh air into the mine through a different shaft to provide ventilation. A rare survivor of this type of chimney, Listed Grade II.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 4 Jun 2013
0.15 miles
10
Wall Hey Pit ventilation shaft chimney
It was once common to ventilate collieries with an underground furnace with a chimney at ground level. It was not without its risks, for obvious reasons. Wall Hey Pit was sunk in the 1840s and closed around 1870. I have seen it described as a "small scale" colliery but this is actually quite an imposing structure and it is amazing that it is still around 140 years plus after the pit closed.
It was raining hence the poor picture quality.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 10 Feb 2013
0.15 miles